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    surface, they could see it is most definitely not. F. Scott Fitzgerald did not think so, either. When he wrote The Great Gatsby in the 1920s, he lived in France which gave him a better perspective on America and how it had many unsolved problems. Fitzgerald wrote The Great Gatsby to point out flaws and corruption within America and its society. In The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald acknowledges that America is restricting feminism from fully blossoming and…

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    The 1920’s was a time of ¬¬celebratory change and “The Lost Generation”, which is the generation going through maturity post World War I. F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote the famous fictional book, The Great Gatsby published in 1925. The story revolved around a group of wealthy people in the fictional town of West Egg, New York. Narrated by Nick Carraway, he tells his story of how he met the great Gatsby, or Jay Gatsby. Several years before, the less financially stable Gatsby met the beautiful and…

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    The Differences and Similarities “Just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had” (pg.5). In the novel “The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald we are introduced to characters by the narrator Nick Carroway. The Great Gatsby is a book about hopes and dreams that no one can really live up to. Daisy Buchanan is a rich, blonde short hair woman in her mid-twenties full with laughter and very sweet. Daisy is a fool, she has one daughter and she is married.…

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    this is how F. Scott Fitzgerald describes her... “Her face was sad and lovely with bright things in it, bright eyes and a bright passionate mouth--but there was an excitement in her voice that men who had cared for her found difficult to forget: a singing compulsion, a whispered "Listen," a promise that she had done gay, exciting things just a while since and that there were gay, exciting things hovering in the next hour.” (12) Daisy’s voice is a big focus of her character, Fitzgerald even…

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    love between Elizabeth Barrett-Browning and Robert Browning. Both composers portray love as an ideal that is interferes with by life and people’s failings, but ultimately Barrett-Browning suggests strength and real love can make it possible yet Fitzgerald sees the world as too materialistic and selfish to make love attainable. This can be emphasised through the connection of Gatsby and Daisy, they demonstrate a relationship built on the foundation of wealth rather than love, this is displayed…

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    A reliable narrator is one who documents a story with accuracy and precision, leaving out their own personal opinions, omitting no details and showing no bias. In The Great Gatsby, published by F. Scott Fitzgerald in 1925, narrator Nick Carraway participates in and records the story of a disillusioned Gatsby and his transcending of the class structure to win the love of Daisy. In spite of Nick’s declaration of a judgement-free character, he makes racist and classist evaluations of others for…

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    The Great Gatsby, which was written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, was published in 1925. In 2013, Australian director, Baz Luhrmann adapted the novel into a film. Both the novel and the film take place in the summer of 1922. The plot follows the lives of Daisy and Tom Buchanan, Nick Carraway, and Jay Gatsby. Nick Carraway is the cousin of Daisy Buchanan, who is a rich woman that comes from a rich family. Long before meeting her husband, Tom, Daisy was smitten with a man, Jay Gatsby. Back in this time…

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    In novels that outlast the ages there is often more than meets the eye. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s, The Great Gatsby, there is one character that is often overlooked but deserves to be looked at closer by teachers and their students who study this novel. The character named simply Owl Eyes, by Nick Carraway, is only mentioned in the 180 pages of the book thrice. Appearing so little he is often overlooked, but in him remains a series of symbols throughout the novel. First thing that we need to…

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    Francis Scott Fitzgerald created the term Jazz Age in reference to a period in American history called the Roaring Twenties. Jazz is defined as a style of American music, known for it 's exuberant and complex mix of tonalities and rhythms. The Great Gatsby displays a similarly elaborate mix of themes and emotions that portray the turmoil of the times. With the end of World War I, the people of America were relishing in the excitement of an economic boom and new possibilities. Thus, Francis Scott…

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    When it came to writing about the roaring twenties and the depression that followed he was indeed a subject matter expert. Fitzgerald was also a expert when it came to writing about falling short or being helpless as ones world falls apart. In another one of his novels Fitzgerald writes “The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.” (The Great Gatsby). The same sentiment…

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